Enfilade

Market Watch

Marieschi, Courtyard of the Doge’s Palace, ca. 1735

As reported by Bruce Millar in The Art Newspaper (9 July 2009), old master paintings are “out-performing the summer’s impressionist, modern and contemporary sales for the first time in several years.”

At Christie’s, eighteenth-century Venice ranked among the top sellers. Courtyard of the Doge’s Palace, by Michele Giovanni Marieschi, ca. 1735, fetched £2,169,250 ($3,512,016) – just above the minimum estimated price of £2,000,000.

Zocchi, View of the Tiber Looking towards the Castel Sant'Angelo and Saint Peter's, mid-eighteenth century

And at Bonhams, View of the Tiber Looking towards the Castel Sant’Angelo, with Saint Peter’s in the Distance, a painting newly attributed to Giuseppe Zocchi (1711-1767) that was estimated at just £150,000-250,00, set a new record for the artist at £1.3m. It had previously been assigned to Locatelli until a sketch by Zocchi matching the painting was discovered.